Suzhou's summer nights are also dull and humid. Even when walking at night, the slight cool breeze is basically useless. The bad feeling brought by the dust after the ground is dry makes people almost collapse.

But if you take a boat, the dense mosquitoes on the river surface can make an old man from the north despair directly despair.

Compared with those small and small bugs, mosquitoes are much more cute. At least they just suck people in blood and will not penetrate into your nostrils, eyes, and mouth.

"The iron rod crosses the Yangtze River... I am really the most powerful of the great people."

Normal people can't do such a thing at all. It's ridiculous to break the legend of the wheat iron rod in a thousand or hundreds of years.

The cabin was sighing that the boat had entered the Guantang, Taihubei, strictly speaking, it was the ancient "Taibo Canal". When the boat reached Wujin, it could enter Taihu Lake from east to Wujin.

However, no one usually does this, because when you arrive in Changzhou, you can get a lot of money by riding a car. If you don’t have to, or if you have enough time, you won’t be able to ride a boat or a boat.

Go down the canal and go directly to the "Wangting Pavilion".

Wangting Town is now booming, but because the landlord is Li Yue, she is the only one who can build walls and erect doors.

"It's already night. Chief of the Sect, please let me pass on it first."

"There is a command at night?"

"Yes, Wangting is here, and only recognizes the commands but not the person at night."

The reason is simple. In order to prevent someone from making trouble for Li Yue and his daughter in Suzhou.

I am not a confidant, I definitely don't know the password.

Because the password was used in "Mandarin" before illegal travel, these days, only the northwest small film under the rule of the Youzhou Governor's Office of Hebei Province has this "dialect". Lin Qingxia, a swordsman who has made a name in Hebei, said that such "dialect" is a little different, that is, the sound of the tongue is not much, but it has already existed.

Two children from the family were sent to the village wall. After knocking on the door, a voice came from inside: "The public's Kalmangia has no water tank."

“Yes, because it is cooled with air.”

Bang! Hahaha...

The gate of the village wall slowly opened, revealing the passage, and several men carrying lanterns and carrying swords came out from inside, and smiled and said with a smile: "Everyone said that we are here today, why did we come at night?"

"I stayed in Runzhou until the afternoon before I came here. The Zongzhu was right behind."

"Okay."

After responding, the guards immediately packed up the horse's refusal. After the fence and the aisle was cleared, there was already a sound of horse hooves in the distance.

The lights were on in the carriage, and there were three carriages in total, with only one carriage sitting in Zhang De.

He was guarding against assassination along the way, but this time he came to Suzhou, he didn't even encounter a little thief, and he was one of the few Taiping.

"In this situation, Mrs. Sui'an hasn't fallen asleep yet, right?"

"I'm still waiting for the sect leader. The women and the girls have already slept. There are still people in the hall, so I'm just a little girl."

"Okay, I'll report to the Zongzhu."

After a while, three carriages arrived at the village wall one after another. After crossing the aisle, the wall door was closed. Zhang De got off the car, and more than a dozen guards got out of the other two carriages.

After a team of people untied their armor, they hurriedly went to wash and sleep, without wasting time.

The rest changed shifts and had some supper.

At this time, there were still hot vegetables in the stove. There were no shortage of cakes, meat, salted chicken and the like in the steamer on the stove. There was also rice wine in the cellar, so I took a jar.

The cellar pond is similar to the deep well, and it has the function of "ice" in summer. Yellow wine is a reversed way to drink it in winter and summer, and it is very comfortable.

The guards were tired, and most of them were from the Jiangyin tribe, so they loved to drink rice wine.

While the guards were eating and drinking, Zhang De walked towards the hall carelessly, but the noise was too loud, alarming the maid who was cleaning in the corridor.

He looked at it curiously. Seeing Zhang De coming, the maid threw the broom in her hand and happily went to the hall and shouted: "Madam, Madam, Ah Lang is back!"

Li Yue, who was cutting the diapers, was stunned. She immediately put down the tool in her hand with a smile, and slowly stood up and said, "Hurry up and change the wine and food."

"Why!"

"No need! Eat quickly and wait for a shower."

After Lao Zhang entered the door, he took off his long jacket and hung it on the clothes hanger near the door. Then he sat down in the main seat. Li Yue picked up a wine pot in an ice jar and poured him a glass of wine: "It's still ice, drink a glass to get the heat."

Holding the wine glass and drinking, Lao Zhang smacked his lips: "It's good!"

Instead of picking up the chopsticks, he directly reached out to grab a handful of Baizhu River shrimps, with a few slices of ginger and a few pieces of green onion hanging on it.

I quickly threw the white shrimp into my mouth and quickly spit out the shrimp shell. Although the shrimp was small, it tasted really good.

"Why did you say you were back today? "

"There is something happening in Runzhou. There is a horse farm in Dantuxi. The weather is too hot. I suspect that I have horse plague. Fortunately, it's nothing, but it's hot."

“White Sand Horse Farm?”

"Yes, your fourth uncle is there. This batch of horses is about to be sold."

"It's really novel. If it were young, who would tell me that horses could be raised in the Yangtze River is just a myth."

"It's not just a story that existed in the Spring and Autumn Period. It's just that raising horses in the Yangtze River was much more troublesome than the grasslands. Now that the feed is mature and the skills are improved, it's naturally very different."

The most important point is that in addition to war horses, there is a huge demand for horse picking in various places.

With the general "big construction", the efficiency of special horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn horse-drawn

After all, the horse may have more functions. For example, when traveling far away, you can still ride a horse; for example, pulling a cart, pulling a horse is obviously faster than a ox cart, and the weight of dragging the cart is not worse than that of a ox.

In the end, there is another point. If you kill the horse and get the meat, there is no problem at all. But the beef is different. If you want to eat beef, you have to wait for the beef to commit suicide in many places.

This last point alone is enough for many farmers to think about raising new types of horses.

Unlike war horses that have to slap plant protein, they usually eat similar to dogs. A small farmer has two-part beans in the land, which is enough to deal with a big horse and a small horse.

As for the "pocket-sized" Sichuan horses and Dian horses, they are even more native dogs in the horse and can't eat a few handfuls of beans a year. Apart from the good treatment of the head horse, the rest is to feed some things to survive.

"Uncle and the others are very happy this year. They said they sold all their horses to Fusang, and not many died of illness along the way."

"There are illnesses on the boat on the Northland horse. Few people can take a boat. They can raise horses in the Yangtze River and can go into the water and swim twice from time to time, which is naturally very different."

While speaking, Li Yue gave Zhang Deman another cup. Old Zhang took a sip and said while peeling shrimps, "Last year, the small court in Fusang escaped quickly, and several decent mines were occupied. This situation is the most powerful thing to use horses. People are not as useful as animals in mining. If there is no horse, it is not known when the benefits will be seen by relying on manpower."

"No wonder my uncle and the others were so happy. They also said that the Dou family invited them to Xianyang to recognize the ancestor of the Dou family of Fufeng."

"Ha, this Dou family is really clean and neat."

The price of horses in Fusang is already high. Now, in order to start mining, the Tokai Xuanzhengyuan and the Korean Road General Administration use horses as major rewards, so the price continues to rise.

The price of an ordinary war horse is about ten konnades in the north, and the price rises by half to the Korean Road, that is, about fifteen konnades. Then it is sold to Fusang, and the price does not rise by half, but ten times.

That is, one hundred and fifty cents a very ordinary war horse, maybe a horse in the south of the desert or a horse in the Hebei. Anyway, I can’t buy Turkish Tun horses, let alone Hequ horses, Qinghai horses, etc.

It is much cheaper to get a horse, but because of the soaring price, the signing of a contract here in Suzhou is only 50 cents per horse. From the horse farm to Suzhou Port or Shanghai Town, the price has also increased tenfold.

However, this price is almost the import price of the merchants in Fusang. When the merchants in Fusang began to be sold in the market, the price also doubled, becoming one hundred coins.

This price is a joke in Suzhou. A fool only spent 100% of the time to buy a horse. With this money, it is enough to buy a carefully selected Zhuangzi.

But after catching up with this wave of market conditions, anyone who does big livestock business will make a big profit. Some people with a way, such as Li Yue's mother family, can transport horses directly to Fusang, making even more exaggerated profits. A ship of horses went to build Zidao, a ship of copper ingots, sea goods, gems, and slave workers returned to Suzhou.

All profitable.

Faced with this profit, it is no wonder that Empress Dowager Dou's tribe is willing to let Li Yue's wife "recognize her ancestors and return to her hometown."

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